deca-denceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈdɛkədəns/

名詞

decadence (countable and uncountable, plural decadences)

1. A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 35:

     "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence."

2. The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.

   the decadence of a five-star hotel

関連する語

• decadent
• deciduous

Further reading

• “decadence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “decadence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “decadence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.